This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Thunderhead is leading the movement to transform customer engagement, enabling brands for the first time to understand each customer’s intent and orchestrate personalized journeys for millions of customers across billions of touchpoints, seamlessly and in real-time. With Thunderhead’s AI-driven ONE platform, it’s now possible for brands to deliver exceptional engagement for every customer throughout every journey. Across every industry, ONE is driving topline growth, reducing cost-to-serve, increasing customer happiness and building customer lifetime value.
TIBCO fuels digital business by enabling better decisions and faster, smarter actions through the TIBCO Connected Intelligence Cloud. From APIs and systems to devices and people, we interconnect everything, capture data in real time wherever it is, and augment the intelligence of your business through analytical insights. Thousands of customers around the globe rely on us to build compelling experiences, energize operations, and propel innovation. Learn how TIBCO makes digital smarter at www.tibco.com.
TigerGraph is a platform for advanced analytics and machine learning on connected data. Based on the industry’s first and only distributed native graph database, TigerGraph’s proven technology supports advanced analytics and machine learning applications such as fraud detection, anti-money laundering (AML), entity resolution, customer 360, recommendations, knowledge graph, cybersecurity, supply chain, IoT, and network analysis. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California, USA. Start free with tigergraph.com/cloud.
BB&T and SunTrust formed Truist with a shared purpose—to inspire and build better lives and communities. With our combined resources, collective passion, and commitment to innovation, we’re creating a better financial experience to help people and businesses achieve more. With 275 years of combined BB&T and SunTrust history, Truist serves approximately 12 million households with leading market share in many high-growth markets in the country.
Smartsheet (NYSE: SMAR) is a leading cloud-based platform for organizational achievement, enabling teams and organizations to plan, capture, manage, automate, and report on work at scale, resulting in more effective processes and better business outcomes. An extensible platform backed by enterprise-grade security, Smartsheet is used by more than 75% of the companies in the Fortune 500 to implement, manage, and automate processes across a broad array of use cases. Visit www.smartsheet.com to learn more.
Quietly humorous and charismatic, with a slight smile and twinkle in his eye, Steve got his first taste of the world's second-most-consumed beverage as a kid at his grandmother's house in Portland, Oregon. After high school and Vietnam, he got into natural foods and co-founded Stash, the world's first specialty tea company. From Stash, he became the wizard of Tazo — "the reincarnation of tea" — and made more waves with a mind-blowing mix of Merlin the Magician meets Marco Polo. After selling the company to Starbucks, Steve found himself in the mood for retirement.
Ten Ren’s Tea: #1 Tea Retailer & Manufacturer Worldwide With over 2,000+ Stores and counting, Ten Ren’s Tea is the most Loved and Trusted tea shop on the market. Ten Ren Tea Co. Ltd. is dedicated to the fine art of enjoying Chinese tea and the distribution of the finest teas available worldwide. Founded in Taiwan in 1953, Ten Ren Tea has quickly expanded to more than 100 retail stores worldwide and more than 20 stores in North America to provide convenient access to its fine teas and ginseng.
We’re a leading global technology consultancy that delivers extraordinary impact by blending design, engineering and AI expertise. For over three decades, we've led in technology innovation, and today we’re at the forefront of AI-powered software and data engineering. Thoughtworks was founded in Chicago in 1993. A lot has changed since then, but our unwavering commitment to engineering excellence has seen us grow to become leaders in the AI-first software delivery and data engineering space.
RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG) is a global provider of cloud enterprise unified communications and collaboration solutions. More flexible and cost-effective than legacy on-premise systems, RingCentral empowers today’s mobile and distributed workforces to be connected anywhere and on any device through voice, video, team messaging, collaboration, SMS, conferencing, online meetings, contact center, and fax. RingCentral provides an open platform that integrates with today’s leading business apps while giving customers the flexibility to customize their own workflows.
Robots & Pencils is a digital innovation firm. We help our clients use mobile, web and frontier technologies to transform their businesses and create what's next. In 2009, we created Robots & Pencils with the then-contrarian view that mobile would be more transformative than the Internet. Today, our thinking is rooted in the belief that, in the age of unprecedented technology acceleration, maintaining a competitive advantage requires new strategies and a focus on innovation.
Sage Intacct is the innovation and customer satisfaction leader in cloud Financial Management. AICPA-endorsed and best-in-class, the GAAP-compliant system is used by organizations from startups to public companies and scales as they grow. Companies can consolidate hundreds of entities in minutes. With Sage Intacct's multi-dimensional analysis capabilities, organizations gain deep operational and financial insight.
SAP Customer Experience empowers businesses to put customers first. SAP Customer Experience solutions brings together consent-driven customer data management, machine learning and microservices to power real-time, intelligent customer engagements across sales, customer service, marketing, and commerce.
Emerging technologies are disrupting old paradigms and unleashing new opportunities. Oracle has embedded innovative technologies in every aspect of our cloud, enabling companies to reimagine their businesses, processes, and experiences. With the introduction of Oracle Autonomous Database, the industry’s only self-driving, self-securing, and self-repairing database, Oracle is again revolutionizing how data is managed. Oracle is the #1 provider of business software, with a broad portfolio of solutions for companies of all sizes.
In 2018, Origin Coffee Roasters was proudly established in Maui, Hawai’i. Our intention is to highlight the origin or source of our seasonal coffee offerings, along with the people and culture that surrounds them. The Founder Origin’s founder and roastmaster is Heather Brisson-Lutz. Her journey with coffee began as a part-time barista job at a specialty roaster in the midwest over 15 years ago. It wasn’t long before her part-time job became a full-time career pursuit.
With over 14,500+ team members globally, Persistent Systems helps clients around the world turn digital challenges into business success. With our deep technical, business and industry experience we anticipate what’s next and answer questions before they’re asked. Our partnership with clients accelerates their growth by giving them a unique competitive advantage; they can see around corners and orchestrate success. Getting them there is our promise. Achieving sustainable advantage is the goal we work toward each day.
At Level Access, we are proud to have a diverse team of engineers, programmers and consultants. Many on our staff have disabilities themselves, giving them a real edge in identifying needs and issues, and effectively testing and creating products and services with accessibility and usability in mind. In addition, more than half of our client services staff has worked directly as staff and contractors for the Section 508 compliance teams in U.S. Federal Government agencies.
Enterprises are inherently distributed and must seamlessly connect their people, assets and data to thrive. Current centralized cloud systems alone can’t deliver the performance required. Linebreak architects and orchestrates solutions that harness distributed AI and data, from edge to cloud, enabling enterprises to exploit intelligence in real time for enhanced insights and decisioning. We bring a unique combination of deep expertise, assets and a global ecosystem of innovative technology and delivery partners to rapidly implement enterprise solutions.
Mastek (NSE: MASTEK; BSE: 523704), is an enterprise digital transformation specialist that engineers excellence for customers across 41 Countries worldwide including UK, US, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific. We enable business outcomes for clients through our differentiated digital and cloud services, which include Cloud Native & Application Development, Oracle Suite & Cloud Implementations, Digital Experience & Commerce, Next generation Managed services, Automation & AI, Digital Consulting.
As a technology company in the global payments business, we operate the world’s fastest payments processing network, connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments and businesses in more than 210 countries and territories. Mastercard’s products and solutions make everyday commerce activities – such as shopping, traveling, running a business and managing finances – easier, more secure and more efficient for everyone.
Ness Digital Engineering designs, builds, and integrates digital platforms and enterprise software that help organizations engage customers, differentiate their brands, and drive profitable growth. Our customer experience designers, software engineers, data experts, and business consultants partner with clients to develop roadmaps that identify ongoing opportunities to increase the value of their digital solutions and enterprise systems.
NetApp is the data authority for hybrid cloud. We provide a full range of hybrid cloud data services that simplify management of applications and data across cloud and on-premises environments to accelerate digital transformation. Together with our partners, we empower global organizations to unleash the full potential of their data to expand customer touchpoints, foster greater innovation and optimize their operations